Internet Resources for Geology and Human Health
A collection of internet resources intended to help faculty in teaching or designing courses and activities related to geology and public health. Resources include data, images, animations, activities, literature and references.
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Exploring the Environment: Water Quality part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site presents two case studies regarding the Wheeling Creek area of West Virginia. The scenario asks students to research problems and come up with answers to a ficticious local water ...Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Exploring the Environment: Water Quality part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site presents two case studies regarding the Wheeling Creek area of West Virginia. The scenario asks students to research problems and come up with answers to a ficticious local water ...Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Water-Borne Illnesses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this curricular unit, students learn how water becomes contaminated with specific water-borne diseases, read personal accounts of unsafe water, and work together to brainstorm solutions to the ...Resource Type: Activities:Project, Classroom Activity
Water-Borne Illnesses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this curricular unit, students learn how water becomes contaminated with specific water-borne diseases, read personal accounts of unsafe water, and work together to brainstorm solutions to the ...Resource Type: Activities:Project, Classroom Activity
Groundwater transport of arsenic and chromium at a historical tannery, Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S.A. part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from 'Applied Geochemistry' is an overview of the use and subsequent reduction of arsenic and chromium compounds in the tanning industry. The article also describes the ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity
Public Drinking Water Contamination and Birth Outcomes part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from the American Journal of Epidemiology describes the different types of birth irregularities that occur as a result of gestational consumption of contaminated water.
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity
Speciation and fate of arsenic in three lakes of the Aberjona watershed part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from Environmental Science and Technology shows the manner in which sediment cores taken from the bottom of the Mystic Lakes were analyzed and used to interpret historic periods (1890s ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity
Evaluation of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport at the Wells G and H Superfund Site, Woburn, Massachusetts, from 1960 to 1986 and Estimation of TCE and PCE Concentrations Delivered to Woburn Residences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This doctoral dissertation from the Department of Geological Sciences at Ohio State University features a comprehensive treatment of TCE and PCE transport in the buried valley aquifer in Woburn, ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity
An Analysis of Contaminated Well Water and Health Effects in Woburn part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from the Journal of the American Statistical Association describes the 1979 discovery that two of the eight municipal wells servicing Woburn, Massachusetts, were contaminated with ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity
No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This is a book written about the cluster of childhood leukemia cases that occurred from the 1960s through the 1980s in Woburn, Massachusetts, and spotlights the community action viewpoint. Material ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Scientific Resources:Research Results, Overview/Reference Work, Opinion